Hey everybody, I figured that since most of us love NBA video games, we also are very likely to be into other sports.

So here it is, for everybody out there who doesn't have the time to make a story but still wants to talk/brag about it, here is the place to do it.

Use this thread for FIFA, PES, Madden, NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball, College Hoops 2k series or whatever other sport floats your boat. If a mod can please sticky this thread, then that would be greatly appreciated.

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Anyways, I'll start things off with my newest College Hoops 2k8 Career Legacy. 26 year old coach Watson has landed his first Division 1 gig in Greeley, Colorado with the University of Northern Colorado Bears. It is the 2007/08 season and the school has only recently been admitted into Division 1 athletics and the Big Sky Conference (Rodney Stuckey played at Eastern Washington the prior year). I've got a lot of work ahead of me to build this program from the ground up and hopefully advance my own career prospects.

The university's mascot, "Klawz"

Anyways, I've started the season 1-1. I opened the season with in a non-conference tournament and lost in the semi to VMI by about 15 points. I held scoring gun Reggie Williams (now with the Golden State Warriors IRL) to 10 points on 4/15 shooting, but one of his other teammates tore my defence to pieces. I picked up a simulated hoopcast win in the third place game against Air Force, who were hosting the tournament. I came from behind in the second half as I increased the tempo of the game and the Falcons folded.

As far as team personnel goes, I've got a couple of good seniors (5th year centre Kirk Archebique and sharpshooting guard Sean Taibi). I've got about 4 solid point guards on the roster but none stand out. Outside of Archebique, by team lacks a bit of height, with my PF's all around 6'6". That should come as no surprise though, since I'm at a small school, but I will definitely be looking to recruit some more bigs.

My team's primary defence is a 1-3-1 zone. Secondary defence is 3-2 zone. Pressure defence is a 1-3-1 matchup. Press defence is half court trap & I also do a little bit of 2-2-1 full court. I run a motion offence, although given my team's personnel I might change it until I can recruit for my system.

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Any comments as always are appreciated. Please share your own stories too. Once I get back into FIFA 10, I'll share my Southampton manager mode story too

Just had a very disappointing non-conference loss. I was playing the Iowa Hawkeyes on their home court. Obviously playing a Big Ten team, despite their mediocre team, was going to be a big challenge. Surprisingly enough I somehow led the game 33-17 at the half as my team's 1-3-1 defense shut them down. I held about a 10 point lead for most of 2nd half & still led by 9 points with a few minutes to go, but then I plain & simple choked. The Hawkeyes caused my UNC Bears to make a handful of turnovers & tightened the screws on defense & their crowd rallied behind them. I ended up losing 52-53 in quite a low scoring affair. The team played well for the first 30 minutes, but we needed to play the whole 40 minutes to get the win.

We redeemed ourselves against in-State rival Denver, as we beat them by double digits to lift our non-conference record to 2-2. Sadly it should've been 3-1. I guess non-conference losses like the one against Iowa won't determine whether I make the Tourney or not, that comes down to winning the Big Sky Conference Tournament. Between now & then, the team has a lot to do to improve. Defensively we are sound, but offensively we suck

Playing FIFA 10 a bit lately. In my second season of Manager Mode with Southampton. Only player I really added via transfer who was any good in first season was 20 year old FC Sampdoria midfielder Andrea Poli (Italy). The first season saw me come a disappointing 6th in Coca Cola League One in England (3rd tier out of 4, below EPL & Coca Cola Championship) but my team fired up in the 3 to 6 playoffs for the 3rd & final promotion spot. I managed to get it done & win out & get that elusive 3rd promotion spot & was happy to move up to the Coca Cola Championship League (division below EPL).

Moving into my second season, I knew it would be a bit tougher, so I hit the transfer market & picked up Hull City midfielder Stephen Hunt (Ireland). My team needed more speed across the park.

Anyways, this season has been up & down. I started out terribly over first half of season, as the team hung around 22nd-23rd (out of 24 teams) & firmly in relegation zone. There's no way I wanted to go back down. Fortunately I reeled off a few wins to take the edge off. Since then the team has been more consistent in getting results & am now sitting about 17th out of 24 teams with about less than 10 games to go. There is no way I'm getting promoted to EPL, so I will look this offseason to strengthen my defence & hopefully add a young stud upfront. Given my budgetary restraints, I'll probably only be able to do one of those two.

Anyways, aside from Hunt, my best players are striker Rickie Lambert (England) who has been my best goal scorer & is likely to continue to be such, right wing Papa Waigo N'Diaye (Senegal). I got my own created player X as CDM & he's solid. Got a few young solid defenders & a solid keeper.

My team currently runs a 4-4-1-1 formation, which was the default for Southampton, but am thinking I should vary it. Any suggestions?

Hey X is that FIFA on the PC or Console? And why not try a Ricky Herbert inspired 3-4-3, maybe better replicated in the game as a 5-2-3 but since you are playing just make sure the FBs make forward runs, or if you go with a 3-4-3 then the wing halves have their defensive runs assigned to get right back.

"Money is options, not happiness, its what you do with those options that makes your life" - Conrad Bishop

Hey Mark, yep it's FIFA 10 on PS3. I might mix it up a bit in last few games of my second season. My team seems to get caught by quicker attackers, so maybe a formation similar to the Kiwis might help. But yes, I do like it when my backs (including X, a CDM) make runs forward.

Might try a bit of a diamond 3-2 back line, with maybe a 3-2 or 2-3 attacking, which is similar to the 3-4-3.

Either way I'll have a bit of a play in final half a dozen regular season games & next season's preseason games & get some things happening. Watching the World Cup is giving me a few ideas

I picked up a few handy players, can't remember all their names, but they are striker Chris Wood from West Bromich Albion, CAM Dario Vidosic from Nuremberg (sp?), same Mexican CDM, a 6'3" German CB & an African CB. I think I'm running a 4-1-3-2 at the moment, & I'm sitting undefeated after 3 games in Coca Cola Championship

PES 2010 master league with Newcastle United at Coca-Cola Championship. Signed Andriy Voronin and I'm using my new personal fav, 4-2-3-1 formation in highest difficulty. After 2 league games, first with two wins, four goals scored, 0 allowed, and a 2-1 win in FA Cup after being behind on the score.

Got knocked out in 3rd Round of FA Cup by Sheffield United in last minute of injury time in the 2nd extra time period

On a more positive note, I'm sitting around 5th in Coca Cola Championship, with 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses through 10 games

All Whites' young striker Chris Wood has been a revelation of the bench, picking up a double off the bench recently Haven't been happy with Dario Vidosic to date, he's my CAM from the bench. Expected more from him, but will give him the season to prove himself before I try to sell him.

I just got out my old Madden 06 for Game Cube, played it and I still enjoy it. Still getting the hang of it but injuries seem to be way too common. I'm in the seventh week and so far 8 players, including Donovan McNabb, who I believe is on the cover for the game, just received a career-ending ACL injuries. I turned injuries down below the halfway mark but it's still kind of crazy - 5-8 injuries per game on my team. (Panthers) but i'm doing a fantasy draft.

Playing NHL 2004 which I buy from internet that it's something like Ebay. I've started a dynasty with Pittsburgh Penguins. I played all of the first 3 matches, in Beginner level. I won all of these. I signed 2 free agents, one was Oleg Tverdovsky and one was created my me. Even I don't understand why my player started to get worse. Team overall is 75, which a lot of teams overall ratings are way better than mine. Hope I resume that.

Badger wrote:Playing NHL 2004 which I buy from internet that it's something like Ebay. I've started a dynasty with Pittsburgh Penguins. I played all of the first 3 matches, in Beginner level. I won all of these. I signed 2 free agents, one was Oleg Tverdovsky and one was created my me. Even I don't understand why my player started to get worse. Team overall is 75, which a lot of teams overall ratings are way better than mine. Hope I resume that.

Haha. I resumed it to 2007-08 season. There is a big cap space missing and also this game has a bug, if you make an offer to someone, he accepts even you have a big salary cap problem.

It is officially time for me to up my level in Madden 06. I'm doing a fantasy draft and I just scored 11 touchdowns against the Bills (IN ALL-PRO LEVEL ) Final score: 77-10. [kicking and recovering onside kicks is quite simple]

I ended up winning the treble with Arsenal in the previous Master League so I started a new one with Newcastle United. After that 4-goal resurgence against us, I figured I could give them a try, but of course shipping Nolan and Barton away (they are two of the dirtiest players I've seen in a long time).

Arda? ARDA? No please release him. He is spending his time with his girl-friend and cars. He is not playing football well and in real-life he is injured. His team, Galatasaray is 11th at 18-team Süper Lig.

I recently got back into my Porto save game on FM11. I've managed to turn them into the best team in the world by following the strategy of buying promising youngsters cheap and selling them for small fortunes when they reach 26-27 years old. I've also taken advantage of free agent signings over the years too. I've made over €2b from player sales.

I'd say it's worked pretty well considering I've got €982m in the bank and the club is worth €1.4b (twice the second placed team).

I know Portugal isn't the hardest league in the world, (especially with one of the big three teams), but in my 16 seasons I've won: Liga ZON Sagres (16), Taca de Portugal (11), Bwin Cup (14), Supertaca (16), Champions League (9), European Supercup (6) and Club World Championship (8).

The board were nice enough to build a 68k seater stadium named after me last season as well. My average attendances have increased steadily over the years. It's risen from 37,744 in my first season to 63,216 last season, which has helped add extra revenue.

Oh, and I have no other leagues loaded so there is nothing dodgy about all those transfers.

That's awesome Phil. I have a save on FM 12 with Birmingham City, the year prior I was with Southampton, and I got relegated. But Southampton, with Hooper and Rodriguez, are DOMINATING the Championship. I think they've scored like 30 and allowed 8? Unreal

Just finished my Seahawks CFM in Madden 15 that I'd started a couple months ago with post-draft rosters. Besides it being way too easy to get sacks (Michael Bennett broke Michael Strahan's sack record 11 games into season 1), too easy to run the ball, and too hard to stop the pass, its a pretty fun game.

Went 15-1 in the first season (started on Pro, then moved up to All-Pro). Lynch broke the single season rushing record, with 100+ yards in every game, and won MVP. Carroll was coach of the year, Bennett NFC DPotY. Wilson was godawful as I threw a ton of interceptions early in the season. I beat Tebow and the Eagles (missing their top 2 QB's, and Demarco Murray), then Brees and the Saints to make the Super Bowl. Overcame two picks and two lost fumbles by Wilson to beat Indy 24-22 on a last second field goal. Greg Toler had a pick 6 though and won SB MVP.

Kept pretty much everyone but Kearse, Alvin Bailey and Paul Richardson in the offseason and added Pierre Garcon and Whitney Mercilus. All the guys I drafted were garbage though. I experimented with sliders and stopped using pass rush moves so I went 13-3 the following year. Lynch and Bennett were still good, but came back down to earth statistically - Jimmy Graham was my best player. Jameis Winston led the Bucs to a 14-2 record but they lost in the divisional.

Went through the Eagles (again), this time with a healthy Bradford. They nearly came back from down 26-0 in the fourth but came up short, losing 26-21. Then I demolished the Saints (again), now starting Garrett Grayson, 50-24. Went up against KC in what would be the ugliest Super Bowl ever. Alex Smith threw 4 picks and Charles lost 2 fumbles. However, Wilson had 3 picks of his own (all to Eric Berry), and Lynch lost a fumble in the end zone, so it went to OT, tied at 13. Because I have T Jack, we won the coin toss, and started with the ball. It was all Beast Mode, all the time, as I ran it with him nearly every snap on what was a Super Bowl winning drive. Despite his 170 rushing yards and winning the game, Eric Berry won Super Bowl MVP. Not even mad, since he's a cancer survivor at all.

That was longer than planned. It was my first Madden game, and I had a lot of fun. Tempted to get Madden 16, but it looks like more of the same, with them not even changing up the presentation at all.